Eno Hotel

The Eno Hotel is the setting for this early 1900s albumen print. The location of the scene is the southeast corner of Sixth and Broad Streets. Ten proud automobile owners have lined up their motor cars on Broad Street and have posed for this shot with family and friends. Two females observe the event from the third floor fire escape and the driver of a team pauses in the alley either by choice or necessity. This three story brick hotel building has a heavily bracketed cornice with "Eno Hotel" lettered in the sheltering semicircle. The front wall of the upper two stories accommodates thirty-eight windows with hooded surrounds and an iron fire escape makes a hasty exit possible. The ground floor houses several cast iron store fronts. Across the street to the north is a board sign identifying the G.A.R. Hall and near the north corner of the Eno is the mortar and pestle trade emblem for Frank Koss' Drug Store. The frame building on the right side of the photograph is unidentified.